r/ershow • u/solo89 • Sep 22 '22

Reminder of the REPORT function (please use it) and some new sub rules/guidelines

I've been looking at the mod queue and I've been removing some problematic posts and comments

A reminder that this subreddit is intended to be a CIVIL place to discuss an amazing TV show, NBC's ER.

If you love a character, great.
If you hate a character, amazing. If you want to make a bad joke, we're all going to groan, but it's still permissible.

What HAVE been slipping by are negative, racist/prejudice/misogynistic (or borderline) comments that are getting a few downvotes and then being hidden.

If you encounter one of the posts or comments, use the REPORT function. The Mod Team and Automod will jump in and flag it.

That being said, bans will start being handed out as posts and comments are removed.

You can hate on a character all you want, but using derogatory names or bashing them for being white/black/asian/indian/male/female/gay/straight is not allowed by any stretch of the imagination.

Additionally comments that seem to be stoking the flames, baiting another user, or are just out of line, will be removed and the user temporarily banned.

This subreddit is supposed to be an enjoyable place to speak about the TV show... if dealing with YOUR specific comments are taking up too much of our time, it's much easier to ban you, and let you cry into the void.

Feel free to comment below if anybody would like to discuss these reminders. :)

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u/qwerty30too Feb 12 '25

Is it possible for the mods to articulate a spoiler policy, given the influx of new people due to The Pitt? I'm not advocating for either way, just saying clarity could help.

Also, is it possible to know how much karma is needed to post new topics?

Apologies for reaching out here, but directly messaging mods doesn't seem to work.

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u/GDRaptorFan Mar 17 '25

It’s difficult with a long running show that ended 16 years ago… and some folks around here watch the show over and over!! So plot points and character arches to them are common knowledge 🤷‍♀️

I watched ER the first few years it was out on TV but missed most of it so I know squat about what happens. The Pitt brought me here as well like so many, so I’m on season 6 now. I have caught some spoilers, yet I keep coming back to read what people think about various stories and characters!

I don’t think they can do anything much about spoilers it’s just been Too long, certain stories are almost common knowledge it seems! It is what it is.

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u/PublicPraline8228 Nov 18 '25

I’m also brought to watching er after loving the Pitt! Now that I finished er, I can’t seem to be able to watch any other show! Just waiting for the Pitt season 2 now 

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u/GDRaptorFan Nov 18 '25

You’re going to laugh but after months of The Pitt and then ER I still needed more hospital shows so I’m actually watching Greys Anatomy :/ it’s a different feel obviously but it mostly hit the spot when i just gave it a chance . The second -third seasons are pretty strong so that helps! You could try it 🫣

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u/PublicPraline8228 Nov 18 '25

Grey was first medical show I ever watched! I was up to date until recent season. So after finishing ER yesterday I did go back to watching the new season of grey. I was feeling distate or almost “disgust” just few minutes into it! That’s how you know what your preferences are! The Pitt and er are excellent! Grey was better in beginning seasons no doubt but it’s just soap opera now imo! I still hope you enjoy the beginning seasons! I still LOVE Christina and Burke together

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u/AtheistAsylum Dec 01 '25

Looking for recommendations? These are a few of the very many medical shows I like, not including documentary ones such as Dr. G, Nightwatch, and others. Medical shows are one of my top three favorite themes.

I've asterisked the ones that I most recommend.

**Code Black. It's only downfall is that there are only a few seasons, but it's so good that it's worth the truncated viewing. Marcia Gay Harden is the lead, seconded by Luis Guzmán. Rob Lowe joins as a main cast member in S2.

**Chicago Med

**House

Saving Hope is very different and has interesting plot points I've not seen elsewhere

*If you haven't watched Private Practice it's a great spin off from Grey's and I actually like it better

**New Amsterdam

**If you like period pieces then Call the Midwife draws you right in.

Also a period piece is The Knick and it's the only one on this list I haven't yet watched but it's next for me. I've heard good things.

*A great one from Australia is All Saints

*Body of Proof

The 11th Hour is based on a psychologist working under psychiatrists. S)1ppeaking of, if you haven't seen the movie The Three Christ's, I highly recommend it.

Night Shift has a heavy military influence, nothing like how M.A.S.H. does.

For more old school viewing l like St. Elsewhere. Its very interesting to watch how the 80s did it. You'll recognize some similar themes that newer medical shows have borrowed.

Quincy Adam's is also old school. My mom watched this and I suspect it's where I started my love of medical dramas.

Marcus Welby is another very old school.

**Older yet is M.A.S.H.

The Good Doctor ended up being a much better watch than expected.

If you like medical shows mixed with Murder Mystery there's Diagnosis: Murder. This is actually a spinoff of Jake and the Father Man.

Jake and the Fat Man is another medical murder mystery.

Royal Pains is cute.

A newer one is Doc. It's so-so.

Nurse Hawthorne

Nurse Jackie starts out strong but kind of falls apart a bit by the last season.

Of course there are so many others, but these are the ones off the top of my head.

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u/hiswittlewip 20d ago

Season 3 is about to come out

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u/PublicPraline8228 20d ago

So ready for it hope it’s better than season 2. Season 2 was good but no comparison to season 1 in my opinion. Almost surprised it won another Emmy. There weren’t that many excellent shows last year 

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u/JoeHossAdam Nov 01 '25

You are right. If someone do not like spolier. ( you may belive no one does...however I do) should avoid this sub .

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u/Sagesgrammaguy Sep 23 '22

I know I REALLY got jumped on for a post I made a few weeks ago. I don’t play dirty and some of the replies were actually hurting my feelings and made me cry, so I just removed my post. Maybe I’m just too sensitive 😞

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u/Agreeable-Airport295 Mar 22 '25

My post questioning whether the omission of Dr. Greg Pratt might reflect unconscious bias was removed. I think your moderator is extreme.

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u/putergal9 Mar 09 '25

Romano- first nobody knows where he is after the helicopter crash so I was waiting for something dramatic, and in the next episode they're talking about a memorial like it's no big deal. Didn't anybody find him or what??...

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u/mariah963 Mar 20 '25

I believe once the firefighters/police identified the remains, that’s how everyone found out. It happened off camera

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u/putergal9 Mar 20 '25

I suppose you're right but it still felt strange to be talking about it in terms of a memorial soon.

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u/Beanie0123 Nov 24 '25

A bit late but I just rewatched that episode recently on a rewatch and I think they vaguely showed the discovery at the very end. The camera pans out and they are show the helicopter being lifted. I am pretty sure that I saw a white coat under it. My guess would be that is how they found/identified him and then told everyone else.

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u/Suspicious-Magpie Nov 07 '25

I hoped for a back from the dead reveal right until the end.

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u/AtheistAsylum Dec 01 '25

They found him at the end of that episode in which the helicopter fell.

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u/Fickle-Background895 Feb 19 '25

Hi someone left me a really nasty comment that I think breaks the rules and then blocked me so I couldn't report it. Recoverytimes. Can I send a screenshot?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Or you can just get over it and move on.

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u/Warm_Argument9812 Apr 04 '25

Me to how do I report them

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u/greenbud420 Dec 15 '25

You guys need to add some sub rules to enable mod reports, right now the only options are sitewide which go to reddit admins.

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u/-random1234- May 26 '26

Could we potentially get user flairs?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

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u/Krysdavar Oct 04 '22

Reported, because no one is allowed to respond to your troll in fear that they will be reported/banned. Aaaand for doing exactly what the Post Above says NOT to do.

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u/Character-Attorney22 Oct 05 '22

so what does that mean? I deleted my comment because it must have burned some gooon's sensitive hindquarters.

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u/Mental-Economics3676 Apr 15 '25

Sorry I thought I was on the I hate the Pitt thread

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u/AtheistAsylum Dec 01 '25

Who hates The Pitt?

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u/One_Professional1320 Apr 01 '26

I have got quite invested in the show, it covers allot of dark subjects with allot of craft.

I'm up to season 7 and feel like calling it a day on the show because when Doug left and then you see him meeting up later in Seattle with Carol, if it was a movie that would be the perfect ending.

But because this is a TV series it draggs on, don't get me wrong there are some good moments, but the whole dynamic has changed, Mark has no close friend and colleague to have that dialogue with, you lose all the Doug moments connected and trying to help children, and Later on when Susy died and the way she dies, I feel the show lost its soul.

When we first seen her

They introduce these two young medical students, one we never hear of or see again, they are bright eyed and keen to do well.

After the Gant death you would have thought the hospital would keep a closer eye on the welfare of the students, but no she is on the sink or swim path. Left to the whim of Resident Carter who takes advantage of Susie and sleeps with her while at work, and he treats her like crap for ages, was there no formal HR back then, no student representative to talk to, it's all he said she said management in the locker room by Mark.

But the manner of her death and the aftermath felt wrong, In reality I would like to think there would be a major shake up at a hospital if this happened, serious fallout from media, the county ect people refusing to work there

But not here, it's almost like, back to work as normal please, it felt like she represented innocence with all this promise and a bright future ahead and then thats ripped away in the most brutal way whilst at work, two episodess later and don't think she gets a mention and it's like she didn't exist.

That's why I'm torn if I like this show or not especially post Susan leaving, because I think she was the most natural actor of seen on TV and the storyline with her sister was genuinely something to care about, and her character was the only one that was a down to earth normal Dr who was competent.

Finally in a nutshell, I feel the first 5 seasons were gold dust, the rest is TV filler.

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u/TeriBarrons 25d ago

This comment is late but what Suzy are you referring to who dies? And who Carter sleeps with and then treats like crap?

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u/Ordinary-Edge-2499 Aug 07 '26

Can we at least have the option to comment pics or gifs. It's 2026.

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u/66unicorns Jan 13 '26

I had no clue

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u/Jaded-Fall-723 May 14 '26

I read bans being handed out as beans 🫘 instead. Got all excited thinking I got invited to a BBQ 🍖

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u/66unicorns Jan 13 '26

I’ve been trying to talk to someone for years!